Improvement in curry-combs



M.- SWEET.

-Curry Comb. y No, 35.736. Patented om. 21, '1862.

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NITFD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES SWEET., OF TROY, NEWT YORK.

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Specification forming part oi'Letters Patent No. 36,736, dated October 21, 1862.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILES SWEET, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curry-Combs, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings.

The distinguishing feature of my invention is the securing of separate trough-like combi bars A to a back, B, by means of suitable lugs or projections, c c, formed in one piece with the back, and bent over, upon, and against the ends of the trough-like comb-bars, essentially as hereinafter specified and shown by the annexed drawings.

In the curry-comb represented in perspective, and as partly made in Figure l, and in section in Fig. 2, ofthe annexed drawings, the hat lugs c c arc cast straight, or nearly so, as indicated at z z, in one piece-with and perpendicular, or nearly so, to the open-work malleable castiron7 back B, andare afterward bent over toward each other between the sides e e, and tight upon and against the ends of the base d of the trough-like conibbars A, Fig. 3, as indicated at y y, so as to thereby hold the comlobars fast to the back in all directions. In Figs. 4 and 5 the tongue-like lugs c c are shown punched from the body of the sheet-metal back B within its ends. In Figs. 6 and 7 the lugs c c are shown punched in one piece with and in the form of distinct tongues projecting outward along the edges of the sheet-metal back B; and in Figs. 8 and 9 the lugs c c are connected together along the edges oi' the sheet-metal back B and turned over, upon, and pressed down on the outer sides of the projecting ends ofthe bottoms d, Fig. 10, of the comb-bars A.

Trougli-like comb-bars have been heretofore secured to a curry-comb back by means of rivets reaching through or from the back piece, and through holes punched in the base d of the comb-bars; but by my improvement above specified,and shown by the annexed. drawings, the punching of rivet-holes through the base d of the trough-like comb-bars and the conse' quentweakening of the latter is avoided, and the fastenings c c themselves not only hold the comb-bars tight to the back, but also serve to cover andprotect the ends of the combbars.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A curry-comb having separate trough-like con1b-bars A, secured to a back, B, by lugs or projections c c, formed in one piece with the back, and bent over, upon, and against the ends of the eomb-bars, substantially as herein set forth.

MILES SWEET.

W'itnesses ALFRED BRIeGs, AUSTIN F. PARK. 

